Ephemera

The ramblings of a lunatic expat.

I am Californian who relocated to Melbourne, Australia in 2006..

I'm a manicurist and a madwoman and I do a damn good job at both.
ruthakers: Let me tell you about the experience I had today at a completely empty local nail salon. It started innocently enough when I realized during a perusal of my InStyle magazine, that China Glaze was releasing The Hunger Games as a series of TDF nail polish colors. TDF means to die for, and if you’ve read the books you’ll see how clever and witty I just was. If you haven’t, be advised I’m clever and witty. So I enter the salon with the above fruits of my somewhat over producing loins, and ask the man with the really long coke nail if they have the newly introduced colors from The Hunger Games. Me: Hi. I’m looking for the hunger games nail polish. His response. We do nails. I do 3 nails for the price of 2. What I think: Hmm. Okay. Cool. But do you have Those colors? The Hunger Games ones? What I say: The Hunger Games? Pointing at my nails. His response. Wendy’s is across the street. You leave girls here. I do 3 nails for the price of 2. What I think: Hmm. Okay so that’s a no on The Hunger Games? And no I’m not leaving you with my children so that I may score a cheeseburger. Maybe if it was a Chipotle. What I say: Um.Just give me that brown and I guess they can get theirs done too. His response: Then you go to Wendy’s!! So that’s the story of how I got 3 sets of nails done for the price of 2 and how I ate 56 Wendy’s cheeseburgers for lunch. But I still want that nail polish. Dammit. This made my day. P.S. The Hunger Games collection (by China Glaze) is out in mid-March.

ruthakers:

Let me tell you about the experience I had today at a completely empty local nail salon.

It started innocently enough when I realized during a perusal of my InStyle magazine, that China Glaze was releasing The Hunger Games as a series of TDF nail polish colors.

TDF means to die for, and if you’ve read the books you’ll see how clever and witty I just was.

If you haven’t, be advised I’m clever and witty.

So I enter the salon with the above fruits of my somewhat over producing loins, and ask the man with the really long coke nail if they have the newly introduced colors from The Hunger Games.

Me: Hi. I’m looking for the hunger games nail polish.

His response. We do nails. I do 3 nails for the price of 2.

What I think: Hmm. Okay. Cool. But do you have Those colors? The Hunger Games ones?

What I say: The Hunger Games? Pointing at my nails.

His response. Wendy’s is across the street. You leave girls here. I do 3 nails for the price of 2.

What I think: Hmm. Okay so that’s a no on The Hunger Games? And no I’m not leaving you with my children so that I may score a cheeseburger. Maybe if it was a Chipotle.

What I say: Um.Just give me that brown and I guess they can get theirs done too.

His response: Then you go to Wendy’s!!

So that’s the story of how I got 3 sets of nails done for the price of 2 and how I ate 56 Wendy’s cheeseburgers for lunch.

But I still want that nail polish.

Dammit.

This made my day.

P.S. The Hunger Games collection (by China Glaze) is out in mid-March.

(Source: roothakers)

  1. erinmargrethe reblogged this from roothakers and added:
    collection (by China Glaze)...out in mid-March.
  2. funbunny said: I want your life.
  3. indecisivemoi said: What’s with these Asian dudes in nail salons with their one creepy ass long coke nail? Do they all do coke? Is this some sort of trend among male Asian nail techs? Did we miss the memo?!